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  1. Re:Still more evidence... on Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars · · Score: 1

    no, but the several hundred, possibly thousand golf carts, and other motorised toys you could drop on every side of the planet for the same cost of sending a whole base, a team of scientists and then keeping them alive there, just might.

  2. Re:I'm all for no censorship except... on The Pirate Bay To Create YouTube Competitor · · Score: 1
    That's not a good rule, a better one would be: Legal to make, Legal to download.

    So if you shit in your wife's mouth when you make a vid, that's legal, its nasty, but she likes it the dirty skank. If you rape a kid to make your film, thats not legal, and it's not legal to make a film of it, so the distribution of your vid should be illegal too. I'm not sure about the legal status of animal fucking tho, it's probably classed as cruelty to animals in most places, so I think you will have to miss out on your dog porn and horse on woman action.

    The only flaw with this rule is, someone might try to apply it to those cool videos of kids smashing the crap out stuff, like the one where they completely trash that guys house, and smash his toilet and everything. That would be uncool, cos that video rocks.

  3. Re:Potential Uses on The Pirate Bay To Create YouTube Competitor · · Score: 1

    Did the dude mention the Republicans? I don't think he did, so why are you ragging on him about what the Republicans did and do?

  4. Re:*sigh* on Modern Medicine Might Have Saved Lincoln · · Score: 1
    ok, virgina tech with a muzzle loaded pistol.

    Gunman goes into class, shoots 1 kid, now what happens next, A) rest of class sit silently for 2 minutes while he reloads his pistol and shoots the next kid. B) Everyone pounces on the guy and kicks his ass.

  5. Re:why explain prefixes? on The First Terabyte Hard Drive Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    well hey, they decided to do that in electronics with direction of current.

  6. Re:No way. on Does Zelda Need an Overhaul? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And I suppose choosing to use the nail gun or the shotgun in quake is customisation too?

  7. Re:Never happen on User Created Content is Key for New Games · · Score: 1
    well, that is where companies like Valve come into the picture. The power and wealth of EA and Mircrosoft will be pitched against the creativity and drive of the modding community who will be loyal to whoever gives then the easily moddable games and modding tools what they want.

    I foresee a battle in the future between those companies who take the, charge extra for everything' approach and the 'give customers loads of goodies to create their own content' approach. Likely there will be no winner, but a Korea style armed truce, with easily moddable games and locked down, offical content only games staring each other down across the mine fields for many years to come.

  8. Re:Overstepped??!! on Flickr Censors A Photographer's Plea · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Then the Bush Basher has to be accused of being a communist.

  9. Re:It explains criminals on A Side Effect of Testosterone Poisoning · · Score: 1
    "Testosterone is an important chemical in human dominance. Once someone displays being angry relative to another person, then they lose the dominance game, and the other guy wins."

    Depends on what the angry person does next, if they storm off in a huff, they lose, if they flip out and kick the other guys ass , they win.

  10. Re:Insensitive comment alert on Encouraging Students to Drop Mathematics · · Score: 2, Interesting
    No, people who are good at maths are told to take something easier so hte school gets more A grades and gets a higher place in league tables. I remember when choosing Alevel subjects, we were shown statistics of how likly we were to get A grades in differnt subjects and Maths was one of hte lowest, strangly we were more likly to get an A in Spanish which we had never taken before than we were to get an A in maths.

    I think the royal society is 100% right to bring this up. When I started my Chemistry Degree 2 years ago, I got my first year timetable and I had space for an elective module, which I had to go and choose, when I tryed to find some coursemates to come to the Elective fair with me, I couldn't find anyone, they all had Maths in their timetable, because they didn't do A level maths. Turns out only 14 people out of 200 had done maths A level and got to do an elective instead of maths.

    Seeing as how central maths is to any science subject, I can't believe anyone considering doing a science degree would not do maths A level.

    Even more shocking was in one of the first week lectures, a professor was talking about atomic surface area, and said 'Simply differentiate the equation for the volume', and 186 students just sat there totally blank. I was just looking round thinking, NO WAY!, surely differentiation is in GCSE, its totally basic, as is no one even know what he is talking about, but it was 2 years since I finished A level and I'd done a year of Chemical Engineering since then, so I guess learning differentiation was a long way in the past at that point, but I really couldn't imagine anyone starting a chemistry degree without being able to differentiate, and I couldn't believe we didn't got taught it until maths A level.

  11. Re:Camino on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not so much being able to use a browser, it's more to do with using a browser without being consumed by an all encompassing rage, which causes you to scream curses upon the soul of whoever designed the interface.

  12. Re:If the atmosphere was one super-thick water clo on When the Earth Was Purple · · Score: 2, Funny

    keep your crack pipe topped up and it will continue to make perfect sense.

  13. Re:Next superpowers... on India's Successful Commercial Satellite Launch · · Score: 1

    Socialism for the rich is an contradiction in terms. So is socialism for ehe poor, socialism is for everyone, that is the point of it, it is meant to eliminate both rich and poor and make everyone equal. If not, it's not socialism.

  14. Re:Well... on Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment · · Score: 1

    The Best scientific shit they ever have on TV are the Royal Academy Christmas Lectures, and it's just one professor and a bunch of his Ph.D students in a lecture hall with a bunch of models and experiments they made out of bits of plywood and crap they found in the back of their cupboards in front of a lecture hall full of kids. It totally beats the crap out any computer grapics, cinematic, over dramatic, HD, bullshit.

  15. Re:Really Kryptonite? on 'Kryptonite' Discovered in Serbian Mine · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, in the film, they come in and they check them all with that thingy (preusably some radiation detecting widget) and saw that the sample had a chunk of kryptonite hidden inside it so they had idenified the soft creamy outer substance as sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide, but they had not analysed the crunchy centre of tasty kryptonite. Soooo, they haven't found kyrptonite, just some crap that kryptonite was once found in the middle of. Form superman 3, the chemical composition for the Kryptonite that Richard Pryor's computer screen reads is Plutonium: 15.08% Tatalum: 18.06% Xenon: 27.71% Promethium: 24.02% Dialium: 10.62% Mercury: 3.94% Unknown: 0.57%. The 'Unknown' was later worked out by Luthor.

  16. Re:"Superman could use it as a paperweight" on 'Kryptonite' Discovered in Serbian Mine · · Score: 1

    Orange Kryponite makes superman strongly believe that Ulster should be a part of Britain forever and that those bastard Fenian should all be hanged for treason.

  17. Re: Echoes of 1936 on China's New Internet Plan · · Score: 1

    I should really have said the Chinese government. The Chinese people may be pretty racist but the Chinese communist party doesn't have any kind of racist ideology like the Nazi party did, the USA in the 30's would probably be a closer parallel.

  18. Re:Marxism?! on China's New Internet Plan · · Score: 1

    I find the Chinese talking about Marxism to be quite amusing, seeing as they have never been a Marxist nation, and basicly piss on Marx's ideas every day of the week. Mao was even worse than Stalin at twisting Marx's ideas to his own insane bullshit, Maoism wasn't even close to Marxism. The chinese communist party wouldn't know what Marxism was if someone bitch slapped them with the communist manifesto.

  19. Re:Echoes of 1936 on China's New Internet Plan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't recall the Chinese claiming to be any kind of master race, so some guy beating them at running really isn't going to bother them that much. I guess getting whipped at gymnastics might annoy the people who came up with the whole gymnastics boot camp thing, but it's really not going to piss on their whole ideology like Jesse Owen did the the Nazis.

  20. Re:First virtual tree post on Dell Offers Virtual Saplings For Earth Day · · Score: 1

    lol, a humvee owner going offroad. yea, thats a good one.

  21. Re:Price on Easy-to-Make Material Scratches Diamond · · Score: 1

    comparing diamonds in jewellery to industrial diamonds is like comparing Whitby Jet to coal, or a 17 foot block of Carrara marble to a sack of chalk pebbles.

  22. Re:"Only" 2 percent on Teens Actually Do Protect Their Online Profiles · · Score: 1

    Wow, that's a very interesting idea, can i call you to talk about it?

  23. Re:Might come in handy... on Typing Patterns for Authentication · · Score: 1

    The best way to stop your younger brother from posting shit with your account is to punch him in the back of the head whenever he even looks at your computer. This also works well to stop him touching any of your stuff.

  24. Re:Bad headline! on NY Governor to Target Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    you forgot 'and have the most money.'

  25. Re:Look at a map for your answer. on The World's Longest Tunnel · · Score: 1

    metric vs 'american'? With the exception of volume measurements, 'american' units are just Imperial units, but americans try to claim them as their own system.